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by wahern 6mo ago
Dividing population by total land area is a horribly misleading way to understand density. There are alternatives, like population-weighted density, that give you a better picture: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf
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by wahern 6mo ago
IIRC, the Inuit reached North America from the West right about the time the Vikings reached it from the East, but they managed to colonize and stay, displacing the native inhabitants and eventually spreading to Greenland, again displacing
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by wahern 6mo ago
And yet the homeownership rate in 1950 was 53% (an all-time high up to that point) compared to 65% today: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Housi... Only 80% of units had privat
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by wahern 6mo ago
> But I've never found someone who behaves with high emotional awareness that doesn't have any language for describing their experiences. There's potential selection bias here, though. It's more difficult to identify
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by wahern 6mo ago
If talking about a topic made one skilled at or reflected skill, millions of men would be star quarterbacks. At a macro scale men and women often have different interests. They often cluster around different skillsets because their interest
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by wahern 6mo ago
The maxim, "a government of laws, not of men" means state power should be exercised according to consistent principles and policy even beyond the letter of the law, not at the whim of bureaucrats or even leadership. Because it&#x2
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by wahern 6mo ago
FWIW, "piracy" of copyrighted works and maritime piracy are completed unrelated legal concepts. Piracy in this context is just a rhetorical euphemism intended for moral framing, and doesn't have any meaningful legal import, n
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by wahern 6mo ago
"Doobie or Not Doobie (Part 2)", S2E17: https://youtu.be/XFlGY3hC4LM
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by wahern 6mo ago
Yeah. Some of the more complex EVP interfaces from before and around the time of the forks had design flaws, and with PQC that problem is only going to grow. Capturing the semantics of complex modes is difficult, and maybe that figured into
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by wahern 6mo ago
It's still technically illegal. And I wouldn't be surprised if there's a tacit Don't Ask, Don't Tell understanding in the community between artists and recorders. Even when individual recorders are known by the comm
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by wahern 6mo ago
I think one of the main motivators was supporting the new module framework that replaced engines. The FIPS module specifically is OpenSSL's gravy train, and at the time the FIPS certification and compliance mandate effectively required
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by wahern 6mo ago
> the country is long and narrow The northeast and west coast metropolitan corridors are similar, and combined have comparable populations, densities, and distances as Japan. Yet we can't even build a single high-speed line. And for
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by wahern 6mo ago
That's what makes the insider trading argument so tantalizing--it's arguing that it helps move the market closer to perfect information. But, of course, the world is complicated and dynamic, and it tacitly depends on all kinds of
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by wahern 6mo ago
I was prepared to excuse his vote as an exceptional situation until Sebelius, when rather than revisit and fix his mistake in Gonzales he chose to embrace the affirmative mandate vs passive prohibition distinction nonsense, a deux ex machin
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by wahern 6mo ago
To say the purpose of a market is to reveal insider information is how you say insider trading is a good thing without saying insider trading is a good thing. There's a ton of scholarly debate about it, and at least most of the early s
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by wahern 6mo ago
In Gonzales, O'Connor dissented and Scalia, who was too afraid of pulling the rug out from under the administrative state, issued a concurrence. So, surprises do happen.
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by wahern 6mo ago
In particular, Necessary and Proper as it relates to the taxing power, which the challenged statute relied upon, having been passed decades before the scope of Commerce Clause powers began their expansion, let alone Wickard v. Filburn.
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by wahern 6mo ago
> I am not sure if this claim is true as well, wealth generally does stay within family lineages across cultures, generally people losing their wealth or even gaining it is an outlier. See any landed gentry in Europe, Asia Your examples
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by wahern 6mo ago
Ghana's GINI index is only a couple points higher than the US (43 vs 41), and the same as Mexico. I don't think wealth inequality explains this at all. But what rigid social institutions of any kind tend do is inhibit mobility. Mo
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by wahern 6mo ago
Sort of. Apple's and Google's notifications infrastructure only delivers to signed applications. Even if you run your own IM server, you can't use your own open source client without building and signing it yourself, and then
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by wahern 6mo ago
If you run your own XMPP server, like Prosody, this issue is readily apparent. See, e.g., the options push_notification_with_body and push_notification_with_sender for https://modules.prosody.im/mod_cloud_notify
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by wahern 6mo ago
You may not have any questions about the security of ML-KEM, but many people do . See, for example, DJB's compilation of such doubts from the IETF WG: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260221-structure.html DJB himself seems to
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by wahern 6mo ago
SIKE made it all the way to round 3. It failed spectacularly, but it happened rather abruptly. In one sense it wasn't surprising because of its novelty, but the actual attack was somewhat surprising--nobody was predicting it would crum
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by wahern 6mo ago
QC breaks perfect forward secrecy schemes using non-PQC algorithms, same as for non-PFS. PFS schemes typically use single-use ephemeral DH/ECDH key pairs for symmetric key exchange, separate from the long-term signing keys for authenti
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by wahern 6mo ago
My neighbor was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, the one mentioned in this article who came back with over 100 bullet holes in his helicopter after the rescue operation: https://historynet.com/rescue-in-death-valley-with-hhm-1
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by wahern 6mo ago
It's an ongoing project: https://github.com/udem-dlteam/pnut See also pnut.sh, but the server seems to be down at the moment.
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by wahern 7mo ago
My comment about negative connotations was referring to oral sex, where it was claimed the local culture never viewed performing oral sex on women as emasculating, but something men were expect to do. Genital modification itself has to some
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by wahern 7mo ago
This was several years ago and unfortunately I didn't archive my research. Every year it becomes so difficult to dig up stuff, and I don't have time today to go back down that rabbit hole. (These days I'm much better at archi
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by wahern 7mo ago
The meme is that before [insert your contemporary period] people were so backwards that they would miss something like the clitoris entirely. The meme isn't that people and cultures were prejudiced or biased, but that they were prejud
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by wahern 7mo ago
> the clitoris did not even make it into standard anatomy textbooks until the 38th edition of Gray’s Anatomy was published in 1995. This seemed surprising, as it hews too close to an annoying meme in feminism and history generally, that

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